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Odd and Even
Explore the concept of odd and even with your class using this resource. Learners take an online test demonstrating their knowledge of odd and even, sing a song about the concept, and engage in computer-based activities.
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Expanded Form (G)
After reviewing how to write numbers in the expanded form, give learners the opportunity to practice their new skill. This worksheet has 12 three-digit numbers for them to asess and compose in expanded form.
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Exploring Teen Numbers
Students explore place value. In this numeration instructional activity, students use ten frames to represent numbers greater than ten. Students read two digit numerals and build the corresponding number using counters and...
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Arithmetic: Decimals, Fractions and Percentages
Students recall word problems that involve place value along with conversion of decimals to fractions. Included are hundreds, tens, units, tenths, hundredths and thousandths. They independently work on a variety of equations converting...
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Comparing and Ordering Fractions
Students compare and organize different fractions. In this fraction lesson, students use wax paper divided into squares to represent fractions. Students put them in different orders based on their value to complete their mathematics...
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Music Math: Create a Clapping Symphony (Plus Fraction Math)
Students read simple music to create a symphony of clapping (all grades). Plus fraction math for grades 5-up. They explain how musical notes relate to fractions and identify a variety of musical notes for example, whole, half, and...
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Do You Value That Digit?
Sixth graders explore the term digit using large number and comma cards as they create numbers. In this digit value instructional activity, 6th graders identify the value of digits in large numbers and receive additional practice...
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Number Practice
In this math worksheet, students listen and say a list of numbers written with numerals and written in words. Students practice writing twenty numbers using words. Students can work in pairs for this activity.
Education World
Predicting Pumpkins
If you want more pumpkin seeds, you should get a bigger pumpkin—right? Young harvesters use estimation skills to make a hypothesis about how many seeds they will find in a pumpkin before examining the real number inside.
Rainforest Alliance
Investments in Forest Carbon
One hundred metric tons of CO2 can accumulate in one acre of forest over time—that's a lot of carbon! In the activity, groups of middle school learners determine what makes forests important. They then solidify the concept by using a...
Microsoft
Coordinates
What are your coordinates? After learning about coordinate systems in the real world, scholars see how a three-dimensional coordinate system works in Minecraft. They write a program to produce a compass rose and conduct an activity where...
BioEd Online
Good Stress for Your Body
Stress the importance of the different types of pressure our mind and body experience in a lesson about how certain types of stress are actually necessary and good for our bodies. As astronauts and people with injuries can attest, not...
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Telling Time
Young learners participate in activities which help them understand analog clocks, and the vocabulary of telling time. They examine the values of the intervals of minutes and hours by making a human clock.
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High, Low, or In Between?
Trios play a card game that reinforces the concepts of number sequence and greater than and less than. Scholars make predictions based on information they know and a single unknown. They see cards drawn by others in the group, but not...
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Acceleration of Gravity with Pendulums
High schoolers explore, analyze and study to see whether the length of a pendulum affects its period and whether the mass of a pendulum affects its period. They review and discuss a lengthy list of math definitions and experiment with...
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Comparing and Ordering Decimals - Complete Lesson Plan
Base ten blocks serve as visual representations of numbers that include decimals to the hundredths place. Children compare and order decimals in their math journal as they build the corresponding numbers with base ten blocks.
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Everyday Mathematics: Ballpark Estimates
In this estimating practice activity, students sharpen their math skills as they learn how to make likely estimates and try the 2 extra practice activities.
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Using "Kindness"
Students discover the benefits of kind acts by dissecting the word itself. For this vocabulary lesson, students utilize the letters in the word "kindness" to create other words which they record. Students figure out what...
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Delayed Gratification
Word problems are great for engaging critical thinking skills, and word problems involving money increase a child's financial literacy. Boost your critical and financial thinkers with a multi-step word problem involving money and problem...
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Addition/Subtraction Strategies
Third graders recall all their addition and subtraction facts to 20. They use the relevant number strategy with whole numbers. Students are taught place value in relation to decimals, and identify 'which decimal is larger.' They...
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Multiply Decimal Numbers
In this multiplication instructional activity, learners complete a set of 14 problems, multiplying numbers with one decimal place. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Discriminant Testing
The class works to identify solutions using the discriminant.They use part of the quadratic formula to find the number of solutions a quadratic equation will have. They calculate how-many times the quadratic function will cut the x-axis....
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Foliage Tracker
Young scholars discuss the change of leaf colors and the role that climate and elevation play in those changes. They then track leaf changes, input data, and graph foliage changes with a free online tool.
Computer Science Unplugged
Lightest and Heaviest—Sorting Algorithms
How do computers sort data lists? Using eight unknown weights and a balance scale, groups determine the order of the weights from lightest to heaviest. A second worksheet provides the groups with other methods to order the weights. The...